Weed Makes You More Mellow, but It Doesn't Douse Your Fire

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Marijuana may make some people feel more mellow, but it doesn’t seem to put out the fire of sexual passion, researchers reported Friday.

In fact, people who said they used cannabis also claimed to have sex a little more often than people who never used it, a team at Stanford University reported.

“To our knowledge, we are the first to report an increase in sexual frequency linked to marijuana use,” Dr. Andrew Sun and Dr. David Eisenberg wrote in their report published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

Those who reported having recently used cannabis also remembered having sex more often.

“For example, women who reported no marijuana use during the past 12 months reported having sex six times on average during the past four weeks compared with 7.1 times for women who reported daily use,” Sun and Eisenberg wrote.